Crystal Creek at Preston Hollow

With an overall grade this high, it should come as no surprise that this facility excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Our inspection scores are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not something to panic about.

To complement its high-end accomplishments in other areas, we awarded this facility a grade of A for its short-term care score. Our short-term care ratings are arguably most important for those requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. Our nursing score is largely tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final category we assessed is this facility's worst category. However, even its weakest link would be a highlight for most nursing homes. We gave it a favorable grade of B in our long-term care category. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. One of the data points we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. It does not appear that this nursing home provided information about vaccinations. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.